From “Private” Managed Forest Lands to Sts’lunuts’amat Forest Relations: Indigenous Jurisdiction, Ecological Integrity, and Fee Simple Title on Vancouver Island
Sarah Morales,* Estair Van Wagner,** and Michael Ekers*** In 2003, British Columbia introduced the Private Managed Forest Land Act (PMFLA) — a new regulatory framework for forest lands held in fee simple title. The legislation deregulated forestry operations for companies that own and manage (harvest and reforest) private forest lands. An intensive harvesting regime was […]
A Saltwater People: Water, Jurisdiction, and Dispossession: Protecting the Salish Sea
Robert YELḰATŦE Clifford* This paper explores the dispossession of the W̱SÁNEĆ peoples from their home waters, the Salish Sea. It posits dispossession as not only removal but also as the enforcement of a set of regimes that damage Indigenous jurisdiction and remove Indigenous Peoples from participation in land and water governance. To address this issue, the […]
Ecological Vulnerability and Socioecological Justice: A Vulnerability Approach to Ecological Law in Canada
Erin Dobbelsteyn* Ecological approaches to law and governance have emerged over the past few decades in response to the failure of contemporary environmental law to prevent and respond to the global socioecological crisis. Among its main objectives, ecological law aims to restrain economic activity within Earth’s ecological limits, restore and preserve the health and integrity […]
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